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fight to create school vouchers

The San Marcos Daily Record asked for photos from readers on Christmas. With around 50 photos submitted, we wanted to share a hearty “Ho! Ho! Ho! and Merry Christmas” from San Marcos.

The newest team member of the San Marcos Public Library has a ton of experience working with children; In fact, Jennifer Jones-Kelley, the children’s librarian, has a “huge” family and even became an aunt when she was just four years old. She now has 15 nieces and nephews and almost two dozen great nieces and nephews. She has a wealth of experience with children and has been caring for them her entire life. With the combination of the years of caretaking wisdom and the tutelage of the former children’s librarian of 23 years, the current Library Division Manager Ashley Schimelman, Jones-Kelley is thriving in her position and enriching the lives of the community’s youth.

San Marcos dentist is a much-beloved Renaissance man

America said its final goodbye to Sandra Day O’Connor.

Steve May and his colleagues are finalists for Texan of the Year.

In the two years since Winter Storm Uri plunged millions of Texas homes into darkness, Gov. Greg Abbott has leaned on a familiar refrain: legislative fixes have made the state’s power grid healthier than ever. Abbott spent serious political capital ramming these changes through the Legislature in 2021, then practically staked his entire reelection bid on avoiding a Uri repeat.

The story we ran about Dr. Gene Milligan, a long-time San Marcos dentist, may not be my absolute favorite of the year, but I really want to share the story behind how it came to fruition before those memories drift off into the ether.

This is first in a multi-part series of articles counting down the top 5 sports stories in San Marcos for 2023.

Two Minute Warning

The San Marcos Rattlers baseball team came in with high expectations into the 2023 season bolstered by a heavy upperclassmen roster.

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend of three years works six days a week with Sundays off. For the last six weeks, my calls have gone unanswered from Saturday evening through Monday morning. He’d provide a lame excuse, apologize for the “missed” calls, and the next weekend, the same thing would happen. Long story short, he was spending time in a drug house on the weekends. He ignored my calls because he didn’t want me to know what he was doing. He says it’s “no big deal,” he isn’t doing it anymore and we should move forward as if this never happened.